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When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 3
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Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love ... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must search for what being a writer really means......
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 2
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Thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, desperate to join her friends at high school in nearby Shrewsbury, agrees to Aunt Elizabeth's requirement that she stay in town with her Aunt Ruth, despite Ruth's refusal to allow Emily to follow her dream of becoming a writer.
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Emily of New Moon volume 3
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Elizabeth horrifies Emily with the announcement that she will attend school. As Cousin Jimmy drives her there, they pause at the Murray family graveyard where Emily visualizes her ancestors and begins to connect with her roots.
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Emily of New Moon volume 7
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Oliver, Emily's cousin, announces that New Moon actually belongs to his father. Maida, one of the girls working nearby, calls him mean and prances off with Emily and Ilse. Maida is pregnant and unwed. When she loses her job and is left penniless, the children, Emily, Ilse, Perry and Teddy, get her settled in the Disappointed House.
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Emily of New Moon volume 4
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Emily finds an unfinished, "disappointed" house half buried in the sand, and takes refuge there after and embarrassing incident with her nasty teacher. Suddenly, time rolls back and she envisions a tragic event that broke up two lovers. And...it involved a younger Aunt Laura.
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Emily of New Moon volume 5
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Emily and Ilse, curious about the recluse, Lofty John, sneak into his barn. He captures Emily and forces her to eat an apple he claims is poisoned. Sure she's about to die, Emily tries to be brave and prays to her parents on the road to Heaven.
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Emily of New Moon volume 9
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Miss Brownell plans to leave her post as Blair Water's teacher to marry the school inspector. Her possible replacement, Mr. Carpenter, immediately recognizes and encourages Emily's talents. Unfortunately, Mr. Carpenter drinks.
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Emily of New Moon volume 11
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Emily and Dean decide to find out what really happened to Ilse's mother, Beatrice. Emily sees a woman in the distance and thinking it is a ghost, runs after her only to get lost in the wintry forest.
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Emily of New Moon volume 12
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When Emily's cat, Pandora, is savaged by a raccoon, Aunt Laura takes it to Dr. Burnley. There she and the doctor share a bittersweet moment which is witnessed by Mr. Bowles. Bowles asks her to marry him. Laura says yes, but not with her whole heart.
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Emily of New Moon volume 8
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A young boy named Duncan blames himself for his mother's poverty and depression. During his first day at school, he wets his pants in front of the other children. Emily is chagrined to realize that Duncan saw her laughing at him.
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Emily of New Moon volume 2
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Emily moves into New Moon with her spinster aunts and odd Cousin Jimmy. Elizabeth, determined to "do her duty by the child," forbids Emily to read or write fiction, and overwhelms her with strict rules.
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Emily of New Moon volume 6
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Emily's vivid imagination introduces her to the spirit of her mother as a child. The incident prompts her to search out the ragged remains of Juliet's doll. She and Aunt Laura restore it.
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Emily of New Moon volume 1
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This story traces Emily's early childhood, as she was raised by a loving, intellectual father to be an independent thinker and a fighter against injustice. She has a vivid imagination that allows her to see beyond the normal, into enchanted realms and misty secrets.
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Emily of New Moon volume 13
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Aunt Elizabeth discovers Emily's deepest secret...the "letter bills" hidden in the attic. This happens during a critical time in Laura's life, the announcement of her forthcoming marriage to Ian Bowles.
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Emily of New Moon volume 10
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Ilse Burnley wants to learn about her dead mother, but her father adamantly refuses to discuss it. Emily, who felt only love from her own father, hurts for her friend.
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Emily of New Moon volume 10
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Deeply in love for the first time, Jimmy Murray plans to build Eve a dream house overlooking the ocean. Still, Eve is pregnant. Emily decides it must be ôimmaculate conceptionö and shocks the town by distributing a petition to have Pope Leo XIII recognize Eve as a Saint. A secret rendezvous between Jimmy and Eve is interrupted by the arrival of the Kinch family. There is a struggle and Abner Kinch is killed. But by who? Refusing to give testimony...
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Emily of New Moon volume 11
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Baby Ollie Murray is abandoned by his father on the Murrays' doorstep . Isabel determines that Ollie will be sent to an orphanage. Horrified by this, Emily, Ilse and Perry decide to reunite Ollie with his mother Maida Flynn. Tucking Ollie in a wheelbarrow, the three embark on a clandestine quest full of high hopes and romantic thoughts about motherhood. Their youthful idealism and their hopes of finding Maida dissolve before Aunt Thom, Perry's...
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